AMD Radeon R9 A375 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 A375 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon R9 A375

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 A375

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 1 month(s) later
786.6x more texture fill rate: 37.00 GTexel/s vs 47.04 GTexel / s

Launch date	2015 vs 13 March 2015
Texture fill rate	37.00 GTexel/s vs 47.04 GTexel / s

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Around 22% higher core clock speed: 1096 MHz vs 900 MHz
Around 27% higher boost clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 925 MHz
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
2.2x more memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)
Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 247 vs 232
3.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3401 vs 1024

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1096 MHz vs 900 MHz
Boost clock speed	1176 MHz vs 925 MHz
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz vs 1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	247 vs 232
PassMark - G3D Mark	3401 vs 1024

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 A375
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

232

247

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1024

3401

Name	AMD Radeon R9 A375	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
PassMark - G2D Mark	232	247
PassMark - G3D Mark	1024	3401
Geekbench - OpenCL		10711
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		54.294
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		795.325
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.692
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		51.794
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		174.513
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		5264
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		5264
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1230

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 A375	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Maxwell
Code name	Venus	GM107
Launch date	2015	13 March 2015
Place in performance rating	632	770
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	925 MHz	1176 MHz
Compute units	10
Core clock speed	900 MHz	1096 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1184 GFLOPS
Pipelines	640	640
Pixel fill rate	14.80 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	37.00 GTexel/s	47.04 GTexel / s
Transistor count	1500 million	1,870 million
CUDA cores		640
Floating-point performance		1,505 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		75 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		1
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support		1
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12	12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	5.1
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	80 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz (4500 MHz effective)	2500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
Adaptive VSync
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI